Digest #41: September 2025

This month at Mad Devs, we're focusing on what every tech team needs: efficiency, resilience, and clarity. Explore our DevOps guides, deep-dive write-ups, and glossary of terms shaping tomorrow’s tech.

Unlocking DevOps secrets

From cost-saving GitLab setups to best practices for multi-cloud security, here are DevOps picks spotlighting the strategies that actually make teams stronger.

DevOps Engineer Skills Matrix: A Roadmap to a Career in DevOps.

DevOps Engineer Skills Matrix: A Roadmap to a Career in DevOps

Discover how a structured skill matrix helps evaluate DevOps teams, identify growth opportunities, and ensure balanced expertise across projects.

  • Created: May 20, 2022
  • Updated: Sep 30, 2025
  • 15 min read
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How Do We Save About ~$10,000 a Year Using Self-Hosted GitLab.

How Do We Save About ~$10,000 a Year Using Self-Hosted GitLab

Learn how switching to a self-hosted GitLab setup cuts costs without compromising performance, security, or scalability.

  • Created: Dec 22, 2022
  • Updated: May 26, 2023
  • 5 min read
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Multi-Cloud Security Best Practices.

Multi-Cloud Security Best Practices

Explore practical strategies to protect workloads across multiple cloud platforms, reduce risks, and strengthen resilience in distributed environments.

  • Created: Jun 28, 2023
  • Updated: Sep 28, 2025
  • 11 min read
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Advanced engineering insights

The best way to learn optimization is by doing it. A Mad Devs Software Engineer's latest experiment with ROT13 takes a familiar concept and pushes it to warp speed, with plenty of takeaways for real-world systems.

ROT13 at Warp Speed: A Practical Optimization Playbook.

See how low-level optimization techniques transform a simple cipher into a case study on performance tuning and practical engineering.


Fresh tech terms for September

Our glossary continues to expand with terms every tech professional should master.

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📖 Neural network
Understand a technique that transforms text, images, or other complex data into numerical vectors that machine learning models can easily work with.

📖 Embeddings in ML
Learn how embeddings turn complex objects like text or images into numerical vectors for machine learning models.

📖 Microservices
Discover the architectural style that breaks applications into independent, loosely coupled services.

📖 Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
See how DDD helps structure complex software around business domains for better alignment and scalability.

📖 Backend as a Service (BaaS)
Explore platforms that provide ready-to-use backend features, allowing developers to focus on building the front end more quickly.


Careers at Mad Devs

Looking for your career’s next move? We’re on the hunt for curious minds, problem-solvers, and builders who love turning big ideas into reality.

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IT DEPARTMENT

🚀 Senior Frontend Developer (React.js)

🚀 Middle+ Backend Developer (Go)

🚀 Senior Python Developer

🚀 Junior+ ML Engineer

🚀 Middle+ QA Automation Engineer

🚀 Middle DevOps Engineer

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ENJI.AI GROWTH DEPARTMENT

🚀 Product Manager